Village of Stevensville, MI General Provisions

Unless specifically provided otherwise, the repeal of a repealing ordinance does not revive the ordinance originally repealed, nor impair the effect of any saving provision therein.

The repeal or amendment of an ordinance does not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, nor does such repeal or amendment affect any rights, privileges, suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the amendment or repeal.

§ 1-10 Code does not affect prior offenses, rights, etc.

Nothing in this Code or the ordinance adopting this Code affects any offense or act committed or done, any penalty or forfeiture incurred, or any contract or right established before the effective date of this Code.

The adoption of this Code does not authorize any use or the continuation of any use of a structure or premises in violation of any city ordinance on the effective date of this Code.

§ 1-11 Certain provisions saved from repeal.

[Code 1994, § 1-9]

Nothing in this Code or the ordinance adopting this Code shall affect the following when not inconsistent with this Code, and all such ordinances are hereby recognized as continuing in full force and effect to the same extent as if set out at length in this Code. Such ordinances are on file in the Village Clerk's office.

Any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of the Code;

Any ordinance levying annual taxes;

Any ordinance appropriating money;

(4)

Any ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds or borrowing of money;

(5)

Any ordinance establishing utility rates;

(6)

Any ordinance establishing franchises or granting special rights to certain persons;

(7)

Any ordinance authorizing public improvements;

(8)

Any ordinance authorizing the purchase or sale of real or personal property;

(9)

Any ordinance annexing or detaching territory;

(10)

Any ordinance granting or accepting easements, plats or dedication of land to public use;

(11)

Any ordinance dedicating, naming, establishing, locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening, vacating, etc., any street or public way in the Village;

(12)

Any ordinance establishing or prescribing grades in the Village;

(13)

Any ordinance prescribing the number, classification or compensation of any Village officers or employees;

(14)

Any ordinance prescribing traffic and parking restrictions pertaining to specific streets;

(15)

Any ordinance pertaining to Zoning Map amendments;

(16)

Any other ordinance, or part thereof, which is not of a general and permanent nature.

§ 1-12 Amendment procedure.

[Code 1994, § 1-10]

This Code shall be amended by ordinance. The title of each amendatory ordinance, adapted to the particular circumstances and purposes of the amendment, shall be substantially as follows:

To amend any section:

An ordinance to amend Section _____ (or Sections _____ and _____) of the Code of Ordinances, Village of Stevensville, Michigan.

To insert a new section or chapter:

An ordinance to amend the Code of Ordinances, Village of Stevensville, Michigan, by adding a new Section _____ (new sections or a new chapter, as the case may be) which new section (sections or chapter) shall be designated as Section _____ (Sections _____ and _____) (or proper designation if a chapter is added) of said Code.

To repeal a section or chapter:

An ordinance to repeal Section _____ (Sections _____ and _____, Chapter _____, as the case may be) of the Code of Ordinances, Village of Stevensville, Michigan.

§ 1-13 Supplementation of Code.

[Code 1994, § 1-11]

By contract or by Village personnel, supplements to this Code shall be prepared and printed whenever authorized or directed by the council. A supplement to the Code shall include all substantive permanent and general parts of ordinances adopted during the period covered by the supplement and all changes made thereby in the Code. The pages of a supplement shall be so numbered that they will fit properly into the Code and will, where necessary, replace pages which have become obsolete or partially obsolete, and the new pages shall be so prepared that, when they have been inserted, the Code will be current through the date of the adoption of the latest ordinance included in the supplement.

In preparing a supplement to this Code, all portions of the Code which have been repealed shall be excluded from the Code by the omission thereof from reprinted pages.

(c)

When preparing a supplement to this Code, the codifier, meaning the person, agency or organization authorized to prepare the supplement, may make formal, nonsubstantive changes in ordinances and parts of ordinances included in the supplement, insofar as it is necessary to do so to embody them into a unified code. For example, the codifier may:

Organize the ordinance material into appropriate subdivisions;

Provide appropriate catchlines, headings and titles for sections and other subdivisions of the Code printed in the supplement, and make changes in such catchlines, headings and titles;

Assign appropriate numbers to sections and other subdivisions to be inserted in the Code and, where necessary to accommodate new material, change existing section or other subdivision numbers;

(4)

Change the words "this ordinance" or words of the same meaning to "this chapter," "this article," "this division," etc., as the case may be, or to "sections _____ through _____" (inserting section numbers to indicate the sections of the Code which embody the substantive sections of the ordinance incorporated into the Code); and

(5)

Make other nonsubstantive changes necessary to preserve the original meaning of ordinance sections inserted into the Code; but in no case shall the codifier make any change in the meaning or effect of ordinance material included in the supplement or already embodied in the Code.

§ 1-14 Severability.

[Code 1994, § 1-12]

It is the legislative intent of the council in adopting this Code, that all provisions and sections of this Code be liberally construed to protect and preserve the peace, health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the Village and should any provision or section of this Code be held unconstitutional or invalid, such holding shall not be construed as affecting the validity of any of the remaining provisions or sections, it being the intent that this Code shall stand, notwithstanding the invalidity of any provision or section thereof.

The provisions of this section shall apply to the amendment of any section of this Code whether or not the wording of this section is set forth in the amendatory ordinance.

§ 1-15 General penalty.

[Adoptedx Comp. Ords. Rev. 1986, § 6.10; Code 1994, § 1-13]

For the purposes of this section, the term "violation of this Code" shall mean any of the following:

Doing an act that is prohibited or made or declared unlawful, an offense or a violation by ordinance or by rule or regulation authorized by ordinance.

Failure to perform an act that is required to be performed by ordinance or by rule or regulation authorized by ordinance.

Failure to perform an act if the failure is prohibited or is made or declared unlawful, an offense or a violation, or by ordinance or by rule or regulation authorized by ordinance.